Horace henry charles sintzenich



(No Model.)

H. H. G. SINTZENIOH. RAILWAY RAIL CHAIR.

Patented Apr. 28,1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HORACE HENRY CHARLES SINTZENIOH, OF TORONTO, CANADA.

RAl LWA Y- RAIL CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 451,386, dated April 28, 1891.

Application filed November 28, 1890. Serial No. 372,974. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HORACE HENRY CHARLES SINTZENICH, a'subject of the Queen of Great Britain, and residing at Toronto, in the Province of Ontario, Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Rail Chairs, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement upon the railway-rail chair shown in Letters Patentof the United States granted me on the 7th day of September, 1886, No. 348,699.

The general principle of my present invention includes a chair constructed to clamp the rail and to rest upon the ties, and also to permit the rail to rest upon the ties.

The particular construction is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view; Fig. 2, a section showing a tie in side elevation.

The construction illustrated by the drawings is as follows: The rail is shown at R. Parts of the ties only are shown in the drawings. These parts areindicated at I). They are located near each other at a point where the chairs are placed, the space between the ties being such that it can be bridged by the lateral extensions of the chairs on each side of the rail. Instead of this arrangement of the ties a single tie may be used, the middle part thereof being channeled out to correspond to the space 0, above described, left between two ties when two are used.

The chair is composed of two main parts. The first part is shown at A d. The part d is in the form of a lug extending toward the rail, its inner vertical face being adapted to fitagainst the web and under the head .of the rail. The rear or outer part of this lug is extended with a flat under surface, laterally, as shown at e, on each side. These ex- I tensions are fitted to bear upon the two ties where two are used, or upon both sides of a single channeled tie. The part A of this piece extends underneath the rail in a curved form, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2,leaving a hollow space underneath the rail, but extending upward on the opposite side thereof, forming an abutment which is provided with ears 6 similar to the ears e just described. The extension of A, forming the abutment D, is recessed at f, and is fitted thereby to re ceive the downwardly-curved outer end of the jaw or block (1', the inner end of which is the same shape as the inner end of the part 01. Just these two parts d and (1 form jaws, of which (1 is fixed in its relation to the part A, and d is movable. A threaded bolt g passes through a.hole in the outer end of the jaw d and into a hole tapped in the part A, this threaded bolt when in place holding the movable jaw by means of this screw, the parts being clamped securely on the rail. The part A lies in the space-between the two ties or the hollowed-out space within the single tie. The lateral extensions or ears e have holes a to receive the screws or spikes inserted to hold them down to the ties. By this construction the chair is supported on the ties, and the rails at the same time rest upon the ties. By this construction the rails are securely clamped and held to the ties, and at the same time have the advantage of the elastic support derived from resting directly upon the ties I claim as my invention- 1. A railway-rail chair composed of two main parts, one having an extension and fitted to bear against the web of the rail and provided with lateral extensions to bear upon the tie or ties, an extension, as A, underneath the rail, leaving a space between it and the bottom of the rail and the level of the railseat and extending upward on the opposite side of the rail, forming an abutment, said abutment also having lateral extensions bearing on the ties, and a movable jaw bearing against the web of the rail, with means for holding it to the abutment, these parts being combined and arranged in relation to the space within or between the ties, all substantially as described.

2. A railway-rail chair consisting of the part A d, having extensions 6, an abutment D, provided with recess f and extensions 6, the partA being below the bottomof the rail, with a space between it and the bottom of the rail, in combination with a movable jaw d, formed with its outer end turned down and fitted to the recessf, the threaded bolt, and the tie or ties having aspace o to receive the part A, all substantially as described.

HORACE HENRY CHARLES SIll'lZENICI-I. Witnesses:

H. W. BENNETT, J AS. 13. CORMACK. 

